Tuesday, March 24, 2009

As MC Hammer would say and probably agree... these renders are the cream of the crop (excuse the idiom) when it comes to photo-real CG. My friend, Karlos Herflo, who resides and works in Mexico City, studied architecture and 3D visualization at the University Iberoamericana. Karlos really nows how to work the light, camera angles and DOF (Depth of Field) in 3ds Max / V-Ray! Other than the fact that they are utterly superb works of art, I'll let the images speak for themselves...

Friday, March 13, 2009

Olivier Campagneis without doubt a highly accomplished architect / computer graphic artist! His images all have a certain quiet tenor. Their elegance inspires a reverence and solemnity. I like to study his images so that some of what he sees just might sink in. Every stroke of the mouse is pure genius. Thank you Olivier for your brilliant contributions to the world of architectural visualization.

I originally built the 3D model of Apex House in Silverlake by Make Architecture in formZ and exported it as a 3ds file. These images were created within SketchUp after importing the 3ds file. Post-work was done in Photoshop, which is standard practice for most 3D work.

Images:

East & West Elevations

North & South Elevations

Street View

View of Downtown LA to the East

A Steep Site

Aerial Perspective

Designed by Nathan Charris,Shook Kelley's (branding architects) vision for the Buell (Erik BuellMotorcycles) Boutique embodies the notion of a traveling TI (tenant improvement). A fabricated metal tube slides neatly into a commercial space... this one proposed for the famed Melrose Avenue in LA.

Images:

Entry

Exterior

Interior 1

Interior 2

Interior 3

Night View

The bikes, based on the actual Buell models (Blast, Firebolt, Lightning and Ulysses) were modeled by my gifted 3D artist friend Ivica Valjak.

Photoshop was used to add entourage (people elements) and composite the SketchUp images into the actual photos of the proposed site.

It amazes me when people have a grandiose idea and then pull it off in reality. The Sagaponac House images, created in SketchUp, document the Houses at Sagaponac, a groundbreaking architecture project initiated by Harry (Coco) Joe Brown Jr. Educated at Yale and Oxford and a long time fixture of the arts world, (Beckett's "Knapp's Last Tape" and Edward Albee's "The Zoo Story"), Brown initially supported his endeavours with real estate investments which grew into a successful holdings company.

The project features houses designed by internationally recognized architects on a 100-acre site near the tip of Long Island. Sources of inspiration include the Case Study Houses in California commissioned by Arts + Architecture magazine in the 1950s and the 1927 Weissenhof Seidlung experimental housing in Stuttgart, Germany.Brown is a true genius when it comes to combining art and business. Give me some lessons please. So many housing developments have fallen prey to the artlessness of bureaucracy. Bravo to Mr. Brown for his vision and steadfastness.

American Dream: The Houses at Sagaponac: Modern Living in the Hamptons can be purchased at Amazon and read on a Kindle.